A young woman who ex­celled aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly and grad­u­at­ed with dis­tinc­tion from St Stephen's Col­lege af­ter earn­ing 16 CSEC and CAPE sub­jects was found dead on Fri­day, hours af­ter vis­it­ing her boyfriend at an apart­ment in Pe­nal.

Weeks be­fore the Gov­ern­ment presents its sec­ond bud­get, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer says her union will not back down on its 10 per cent wage hike re­quest. Fur­ther­more, Ogeer is now call­ing on the Prime Min­is­ter to meet with the union to set­tle out­stand­ing ne­go­ti­a­tions, say­ing she will not deal with Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath.

To­ba­go will have a new po­lice com­man­der from Mon­day, just days af­ter the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) re­vealed the is­land is the on­ly po­lice di­vi­sion record­ing an in­crease in Se­ri­ous Re­port­ed Crime this year.

For­mer Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Wat­son Duke is urg­ing trade union lead­ers not to al­low po­lit­i­cal al­le­giances to over­shad­ow their re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to the work­ers they rep­re­sent.